Annia Ciezadlo Quotes
You [can] become part of someone else's narrative. Every once in a while I would get people asking me questions like, "If your husband is a Muslim, then why haven't you converted to Islam?" Interestingly enough, almost every person who asked me that was a Sunni, and it was their not-so-subtle way of implying that my Shiite husband was a bad Muslim for letting his infidel wife run around unconverted.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.
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The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
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People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.
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As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.
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I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.
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It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.
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The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.
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When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
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You have to build trust among team members so that people feel free to admit what they don't know, make mistakes, ask for help if they need it, apologize when necessary, and not hold back their opinions.
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I don't know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, 'Viewer discretion is advised', then turn the TV off. Those are code words for, 'Turn the sound up; this is gonna be really good.'
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When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.
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I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.
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My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let's unify; let's show more love.
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Hardships make or break people.
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I would never think of myself as a role model.
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I want God to be speaking louder than the music.
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The SEC has actually progressively loosened up the rules and recognized the value of social media, but the goal is always going to be to get information out as broadly as possible as quickly as possible.
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You [can] become part of someone else's narrative. Every once in a while I would get people asking me questions like, "If your husband is a Muslim, then why haven't you converted to Islam?" Interestingly enough, almost every person who asked me that was a Sunni, and it was their not-so-subtle way of implying that my Shiite husband was a bad Muslim for letting his infidel wife run around unconverted.
